Southern Alamance picks alum as next football coach

Published: Sunday, May 12, 2013 at 12:41 AM.

MT. HERMON — Southern Alamance is bringing back one of its own to be its next football coach.

Andrew Carrouth, who graduated from the school in 2003, has been hired.

“This has always been my dream job,” Carrouth said. “I’ve been an assistant coach and I loved it, but knew I wanted to be a head football coach. Definitely that was the place I wanted to be and when the opportunity came open, I made a big push for it.”

Carrouth, 28, spent the past six seasons on the football coaching staff at Southeast Guilford, which is a neighboring Metro Conference rival of Southern Alamance. He was the defensive coordinator there for the past two seasons.

“He fit what we were looking for,” Southern Alamance athletics director Jon Russell said. “We knew he was going to give us a good base on football knowledge.”

Carrouth fills the vacancy left by Henry Trevathan, who departed the position in March to take an administrative role with the North Carolina State football program. Trevathan’s teams went a combined 4-18 in two seasons at Southern Alamance, including a 3-8 mark in 2012.

Carrouth, an East Carolina graduate, will teach advanced placement psychology at Southern Alamance. He has been in a similar role at Southeast Guilford, also teaching civics and economics.

MT. HERMON — Southern Alamance is bringing back one of its own to be its next football coach.

Andrew Carrouth, who graduated from the school in 2003, has been hired.

“This has always been my dream job,” Carrouth said. “I’ve been an assistant coach and I loved it, but knew I wanted to be a head football coach. Definitely that was the place I wanted to be and when the opportunity came open, I made a big push for it.”

Carrouth, 28, spent the past six seasons on the football coaching staff at Southeast Guilford, which is a neighboring Metro Conference rival of Southern Alamance. He was the defensive coordinator there for the past two seasons.

“He fit what we were looking for,” Southern Alamance athletics director Jon Russell said. “We knew he was going to give us a good base on football knowledge.”

Carrouth fills the vacancy left by Henry Trevathan, who departed the position in March to take an administrative role with the North Carolina State football program. Trevathan’s teams went a combined 4-18 in two seasons at Southern Alamance, including a 3-8 mark in 2012.

Carrouth, an East Carolina graduate, will teach advanced placement psychology at Southern Alamance. He has been in a similar role at Southeast Guilford, also teaching civics and economics.

“I knew as soon as I went into the teaching side of things that I wanted to be a head coach,” he said. “East Carolina made us write down a list of goals. Not too long ago I was looking at that list (and on it was) to be a head football coach before I was 30.”

Carrouth was an offensive lineman at Southern Alamance, a member of its last conference championship team in 2002.

“That’s not that long ago,” he said. “The biggest thing I want to come in right away and attack is confidence. … “We’ve got great players down there. I met with some of them the other day and I was blown away by how good our kids look.

“The first thing I want to do is be competitive in our county and as far as getting into our conference, the exact same thing.”

That 2002 championship in what was then the Five County Conference marks the Patriots’ only outright football league title in 27 years.